Express Milwaukee - Art for Art's Sake http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/articles.sec-15-1-art-for-arts-sake.html <![CDATA[Squeezing the Box]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, about the job situation here in America's Dairyland, I ought to inform you live-music adventurers out there that the mighty Brewhaus Polka Kings with Artie Kumbalek...]]> <![CDATA[Maybe Baby]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, I just walked in and boy-oh, are my legs tired. Anyways, about the recent Time Magazine cover and the breast-feeding brouhaha in the modern age, there is this...]]> <![CDATA[Big Man on Rumpus]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So, what's to say, from me this terrible Tuesday, May 8. Yeah yeah, I just got back from voting, and boy-oh are my thumb and index finger tired, I kid you not. I don't know if they...]]> <![CDATA[Howdy, Neighbor]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, don't forget to place your vote when you visit the polling ballot place come Tuesday, May 8, 'cause here's one more chance to play pretend-kingmaker and grant the chosen...]]> <![CDATA[All Man Brothers]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, just as a matter of public record I ought to mention that this here issue kicks off the end of my gala 25th-anniversary year that I've been wringing these weekly...]]> <![CDATA[Everyone Knows It's Windy]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? Listen, it had been suggested this week I slap together the Positive...]]> <![CDATA[Where Blue Birds Fly]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So yeah, as Dorothy said to the wizard, “there's no place like home,” then to awaken in her bed with the company of three itinerant farmhands; I will match the Kansas farm girl...]]> <![CDATA[Just Because You Think You're So]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, as some of you's know, I've given up work for Lent...]]> <![CDATA[Krakowiak, East of Jive Turkey]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? Listen, as Lorena Bobbitt said to husband John some years ago, “We got to cut this short,” so do I got to cut this essay off at the bee's knee, or thereabouts. And I'll tell you why...]]> <![CDATA[I Wish Eyes Are Smiling]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, as a guy of Polish plus who-knows-what-the-fock heritage, you won't catch me blowing my party horn this time of the year, here in the throes of...]]> <![CDATA[One Schtup at a Time]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, here toward the tail end of my gala 25th anniversary year with one newspaper, all I got to say is I can't believe it's the merry month of March already, I kid you not...]]> <![CDATA[Allegro con asino]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, I hope your Lenten season got off to a hell of a lot smoother start than mine own did. I tell you, a week ago Wednesday night it dawned on me: “Hey nitwit, it's been Ash...]]> <![CDATA[Theology Whiz]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So, here we be at the starting line of another Lenten season, for christ sakes. And me, lapsed Roman Catholic—big-time, ever since years ago the priests forgot their Latin and all of a...]]> <![CDATA[Pulling Cupid's Bull]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? Hey, it's damn near Valentine's Day, which to me means only one thing: Presidents' Day is right around the corner. So it's high time for me and the guys to rendezvous pronto...]]> <![CDATA[Le Voyage dans la lune]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, I don't have much time to whip out an essay for you's this week on account I got to go meet up with my crew over by the Uptowner tavern/charm school on Hysteric Center...]]> <![CDATA[No Dry Zone]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, can't deliver the palaver this week on how the brainwashed Tea Party/Republican uber-faithful constitute a zombie horde hell-bent on devouring truth, justice and the...]]> <![CDATA[January Gall]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, crushed I am by the flushing of our Packers season down the turd bowl by a focking bunch of New Yorkers, and some knob says to me, “Hey Artie, writing those essays...]]> <![CDATA[Watt a World]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, since this new year 2012 so far has been abso-focking-lutely nothing to write home about, I'm putting the kibosh on whipping out an essay for you's this week...]]> <![CDATA[And a Happy Huchmus to You]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So listen, this newspaper is celebrating its 30th-anniversary year; and me, myself, is toasting his own 25 years of whipping out these essays like a fry cook at your favorite greasy...]]> <![CDATA[A Gentleman of Bologna]]> I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain'a? So how was my merry focking Christmas? No, Santa—fat moralistic fock that he is—did not deliver the bevy of Vegas showgirls I requested; but thanks for asking...]]>